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Helicopter gunships launched air strikes on the Long Hai hills this week following clashes with Australian infantry in which seven Viet Cong were killed. In his command Sioux, the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ron Grey of Watsons Bay, NSW, directed the RAAF helicopters himself. The gunships - nicknamed Bushrangers - made repeated passes over a part of the hills riddled with caves and possible enemy hideouts. They used their rockets and machine guns for the strike, on the western end of the Long Hais. Recently soldiers of the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, have been ambushing in the scrub around and between the hills. Colonel Grey called for the air strikes following two ambushes sprung by his soldiers on groups of up to 30 guerillas. Apart from the seven enemy killed in the two ambushes, heavy blood trails left by the fleeing enemy indicated up to a dozen other Viet Cong were wounded.
Australian troops in Vietnam last week battled with more than one hundred Viet Cong who attempted to take over the village of Long Dien, about ten miles south of the Task Force base at Nui Dat. The at
Bombardment of the Long Hai hills south of the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, Vietnam, was a fore-runner to Operation Pinnaroo by troops of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Australian R
Australian troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers swept through Hoa Long village in Phuoc Tuy province this week seeking a group of Viet Cong who entered the village in the early hours of the d
Troops of Charlie Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment completed this week what will probably be their last operation in Vietnam before returning home to Australia. The 6th Battalion hand
Newly arrived troops of 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, from Puckapunyal, Victoria, completed search and destroy Operation Lismore this week in which they made their first contact with Viet
Troops of the 5th Battalion RAR depart Baria aboard American Bell 'Iroquois' helicopters for an assault landing on a small island called Long Son off the coast of South Vietnam. The operation named '
